Francesco Clemente famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Fashion is the pursuit of perfection, Style is the acceptance of one's flaws.
-- Francesco Clemente

#Fashion #Acceptance #Perfection
I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels.
-- Francesco Clemente

#Giving #Portraits #Portraiture
To me the poets are closer than I am to the idea of voice, to a sort of primeval song that we all participate in.
-- Francesco Clemente

#Song #Ideas #Voice
There's poetry in the world. Poetry doesn't belong just to the poets. You know, you can look at the most premeditated, cold blooded movie and find poetry in it.
-- Francesco Clemente

#Poetry #Looks #World
Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat from human beings in real life; painting is more about the extreme moments when speech doesn't help anymore.
-- Francesco Clemente

#Real #Retreat #Speech
My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.
-- Francesco Clemente

#Portraits #Half #Painting
In my head I am in one of those Buddhist caves where you see a thousand Buddha faces on the wall. In my head I am on my seventeen-year-old acid trip, when I saw my personas fall one minute after another, as if I was dying every moment.
-- Francesco Clemente

#Buddhist #Wall #Fall
I'm at the age where I don't need an acid trip to feel naked... to feel that I don't exist. Now a self-portrait is almost a reminder to me that I do exist.
-- Francesco Clemente

#Self #Age #Acid
That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.
-- Francesco Clemente

#Portraits #Way #Moments
When I look at a drawing of a person, I look at that person as living.
-- Francesco Clemente

#Drawing #Looks #Persons
Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, 'How do you do it?' But, hopefully, it is beautiful.
-- Francesco Clemente

#Beautiful #Love You #Making Love
When you sit for an hour and a half in front of somebody, he or she shows about twenty faces. And so it's this crazy chase of, Which face? Which one is the one?
-- Francesco Clemente

#Crazy #Half #Faces
A photograph to me is always a reminder of how the person was on a certain day in that certain light fixed. When I look at a watercolor of that same person, it seems to me alive, more open than a photograph.
-- Francesco Clemente

#Light #Looks #Alive

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